It kills in the Sahel and Barkhane packs up in Mali!

As African countries hit by terrorism have a greater need to join forces based on strong and effective state-to-state partnerships with the powers of the north, the Malian junta decides to withdraw from the G5 Sahel and forces Barkhane to disarticulate in Mali to rearticulate elsewhere.

Just yesterday, points out the Burkinabé site, the French army (therefore) officially handed over to the Armed Forces of Mali the keys to the Ménaka military base, in the northeast of the country.

However, the French force, doomed to shame, is the one whose elements, in collaboration with the local armies, were scarecrows for the terrorists, in particular those who infest the Three Borders area.

Once again,

we can only call for the pooling of forces and strategies, as desired (last Thursday) by Niger's President, Mohamed Bazoum, in the now famous

to form a common front against the terrorist Hydra.

Turkish drones, European formations, French troops… Will Mohamed Bazoum manage to win the bet of the internationalization of the Sahelian conflict?

(…) Mohamed Bazoum accepts the bet of presenting Niger as the

of the three-border zone, by being very critical of a powerless Burkina Faso and a Mali infiltrated by the Wagner's Russians.

On the opposition side, some do not hesitate to qualify the Nigerien head of state as a

in particular on social networks where anti-Western sentiment is on the rise

Jeune Afrique

the Nigerien president and his relatives are working to keep the bomb of anti-French sentiment defused.

Dependent largely on French and American technologies, the Nigerien head of state hopes that the new Turkish drones (which he has just received) will provide him with a certain autonomy.

And he knows that he must have as many cards as possible in the war that opposes him to the Islamic State, in order to strike him militarily or to force him into a dialogue that has been discreetly started in recent months.

destruction of arable land, increase in demand, degraded climatic conditions... Not to mention the chaos, cyclical, linked to the paralysis Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea from which 95% of the cereals of this second largest producer in the world left.

It is difficult for the Sahelian states, among the poorest on the planet, to absorb the shocks when the majority of the population lives from day to day.

But for Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali and Chad there is another difficulty,

Le Monde Afrique: that of the lack of legitimacy of the military powers installed by coups d'état, to manage this already tense social situation, which the war in Ukraine places on the brink of rupture.

While the military swear to be there only to save the nation, it is difficult to discern in their future plans anything other than the desire to keep what they have seized,

Le Monde Afrique.

The juntas are probably not the best equipped to manage this unprecedented crisis for several decades in Africa.